Thanks for all your support over 2013. We won four key
awards: Dr Luis Gomez was the recipient of the Institute of Acoustics Peter
Barnett Award, Dr Stephen Dance and the Acoustics Group received the
LSBU Enterprise team award, Dr Bob Peters
received the Institute of Acoustics R W B Stephens Medal, and two of our MSc
students were awarded Acoustical Society of America Newman medals: Shane Sugrue
and Rob Burrell. Peter Mapp submitted and successfully defended his doctoral
thesis. International links were furthered with the Politecnico
of Turin and Federal University of Minas Gerais. Links with the Institute of
Acoustics were also furthered with LSBU hosting a meeting on the Principles of
Uncertainty, Dr Gomez gave an evening seminar as did two of the
MSc students. After a break of 17 years the
Institute of Acoustics Diploma was reinitiated with 17 new students now in
attendance.
Four papers were published
in the Journal of Sound and Vibration, Applied Acoustics and the Journal of
Building Acoustics and presentations given at the following conferences:
Birmingham, Manchester, London, Southampton, Bangkok, Montreal, and Innsbruck. A
new three year research project commenced with Baykam of Turkey. Significant
investment was gratefully received for the refurbishment of the reverberation
chamber, and cutting edge instrumentation: an impedance gun, a standing wave
tube and four XL2 meters. For the Research Exercise Framework the Acoustics
Group contributed two of the five engineering case studies. We look forward to
2014 in particular Melbourne for Inter-noise 2014 and the Musical Acoustics
seminar at the Royal Academy of Music, but especially to two visiting PhD
students from South America. Best wishes for the New Year
.bmp)
